Almost $100,000 in research grants for the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies will provide means for new research about autism, mental health needs of refugees and teaching education.

Katy Schramm and Ryan Bares spend their working hours with moths and rats, respectively. They work in laboratories on campus looking after the animals: cleaning their cages, feeding them and preparing their experiments.

With the economic recession and the growing number of lost jobs, many U students are turning to plasma donation, the process of extracting plasma from their blood, to meet their financial needs.

A highly infective computer virus that attacked the U last week has been contained.

A group of 11 students is contributing individual skills to work on three projects this semester in a new communication class, which is run as a public relations agency with jobs to complete for real clients.

Blood, a junior in music at the U, recently won the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center through VSA Arts8212;a worldwide organization formerly known as Very Special Arts that provides opportunities for artists with disabilities.

Research professors have developed a way to avoid bacterial growth on medical device implants, such as those used on injured soldiers who have lost limbs.

Although officials have decreased the poaching of elephant tusks in Northern Africa, a U research study showed that elephants might be in danger of human encroachment on their habitat.

Come November, students who run track and cross-country won't have to use the Olympic Oval in Kearns or East High School's track anymore.

Zach Ruble is gone, but his passion for nature lives on in his friends and family. Ruble studied bioengineering and environmental studies as a freshman at the U. He is survived by his parents, Jay and Paula, and his younger brother Nathan.